/* * A pedagogical implementation of A5/1. * * Copyright (C) 1998-1999: Marc Briceno, Ian Goldberg, and David Wagner * * The source code below is optimized for instructional value and clarity. * Performance will be terrible, but that's not the point. * The algorithm is written in the C programming language to avoid ambiguities * inherent to the English language. Complain to the 9th Circuit of Appeals * if you have a problem with that. * * This software may be export-controlled by US law. * * This software is free for commercial and non-commercial use as long as * the following conditions are aheared to. * Copyright remains the authors' and as such any Copyright notices in * the code are not to be removed. * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF * SUCH DAMAGE. * * The license and distribution terms for any publicly available version or * derivative of this code cannot be changed. i.e. this code cannot simply be * copied and put under another distribution license * [including the GNU Public License.] * * Background: The Global System for Mobile communications is the most widely * deployed cellular telephony system in the world. GSM makes use of * four core cryptographic algorithms, neither of which has been published by * the GSM MOU. This failure to subject the algorithms to public review is all * the more puzzling given that over 100 million GSM * subscribers are expected to rely on the claimed security of the system. * * The four core GSM algorithms are: * A3 authentication algorithm * A5/1 "strong" over-the-air voice-privacy algorithm * A5/2 "weak" over-the-air voice-privacy algorithm * A8 voice-privacy key generation algorithm * * In April of 1998, our group showed that COMP128, the algorithm used by the * overwhelming majority of GSM providers for both A3 and A8 * functionality was fatally flawed and allowed for cloning of GSM mobile * phones. * Furthermore, we demonstrated that all A8 implementations we could locate, * including the few that did not use COMP128 for key generation, had been * deliberately weakened by reducing the keyspace from 64 bits to 54 bits. * The remaining 10 bits are simply set to zero! * * See http://www.scard.org/gsm for additional information. * * The question so far unanswered is if A5/1, the "stronger" of the two * widely deployed voice-privacy algorithm is at least as strong as the * key. Meaning: "Does A5/1 have a work factor of at least 54 bits"? * Absent a publicly available A5/1 reference implementation, this question * could not be answered. We hope that our reference implementation below, * which has been verified against official A5/1 test vectors, will provide * the cryptographic community with the base on which to construct the * answer to this important question. * * Initial indications about the strength of A5/1 are not encouraging. * A variant of A5, while not A5/1 itself, has been estimated to have a * work factor of well below 54 bits. See http://jya.com/crack-a5.htm for * background information and references. * * With COMP128 broken and A5/1 published below, we will now turn our attention * to A5/2. The latter has been acknowledged by the GSM community to have * been specifically designed by intelligence agencies for lack of security. * * We hope to publish A5/2 later this year. * * -- Marc Briceno * Voice: +1 (925) 798-4042 * */ #include #include #include #include #include /* Masks for the three shift registers */ #define R1MASK 0x07FFFF /* 19 bits, numbered 0..18 */ #define R2MASK 0x3FFFFF /* 22 bits, numbered 0..21 */ #define R3MASK 0x7FFFFF /* 23 bits, numbered 0..22 */ /* Middle bit of each of the three shift registers, for clock control */ #define R1MID 0x000100 /* bit 8 */ #define R2MID 0x000400 /* bit 10 */ #define R3MID 0x000400 /* bit 10 */ /* Feedback taps, for clocking the shift registers. * These correspond to the primitive polynomials * x^19 + x^5 + x^2 + x + 1, x^22 + x + 1, * and x^23 + x^15 + x^2 + x + 1. */ #define R1TAPS 0x072000 /* bits 18,17,16,13 */ #define R2TAPS 0x300000 /* bits 21,20 */ #define R3TAPS 0x700080 /* bits 22,21,20,7 */ /* Output taps, for output generation */ #define R1OUT 0x040000 /* bit 18 (the high bit) */ #define R2OUT 0x200000 /* bit 21 (the high bit) */ #define R3OUT 0x400000 /* bit 22 (the high bit) */ typedef unsigned char byte; typedef unsigned long word; typedef word bit; /* Calculate the parity of a 32-bit word, i.e. the sum of its bits modulo 2 */ bit parity(word x) { // x ^= x>>32; x ^= x>>16; x ^= x>>8; x ^= x>>4; x ^= x>>2; x ^= x>>1; return x&1; } /* Clock one shift register */ word clockone(word reg, word mask, word taps) { word t = reg & taps; reg = (reg << 1) & mask; reg |= parity(t); return reg; } /* The three shift registers. They're in global variables to make the code * easier to understand. * A better implementation would not use global variables. */ word R1, R2, R3; /* Look at the middle bits of R1,R2,R3, take a vote, and * return the majority value of those 3 bits. */ bit majority() { int sum; sum = ((R1&R1MID) >> 8) + ((R2&R2MID) >> 10) + ((R3&R3MID) >> 10); if (sum >= 2) return 1; else return 0; } /* Clock two or three of R1,R2,R3, with clock control * according to their middle bits. * Specifically, we clock Ri whenever Ri's middle bit * agrees with the majority value of the three middle bits.*/ inline void clock() { bit maj = majority(); if (((R1&R1MID)!=0) == maj) R1 = clockone(R1, R1MASK, R1TAPS); if (((R2&R2MID)!=0) == maj) R2 = clockone(R2, R2MASK, R2TAPS); if (((R3&R3MID)!=0) == maj) R3 = clockone(R3, R3MASK, R3TAPS); } /* Generate an output bit from the current state. * You grab a bit from each register via the output generation taps; * then you XOR the resulting three bits. */ bit getbit() { // return parity(R1&R1OUT)^parity(R2&R2OUT)^parity(R3&R3OUT); return ((R1&R1OUT) >> 18) ^ ((R2&R2OUT) >> 21) ^ ((R3&R3OUT) >> 22); } inline word calculate_link (word input, word count) { word result; int i; input ^= count ^ (count << 23) ^ (count << (22 + 23)); R1 = (input >> (22 + 23)) & R1MASK; R2 = (input >> 23) & R2MASK; R3 = input & R3MASK; result = getbit(); for(i=1;i<64;i++) { clock(); result = (result << 1)| getbit(); } return result; } int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { int i,j; word current; sscanf(argv[1], "%16lx", ¤t); for(i=pow(2,21);i>0;i--) { current = calculate_link(current, i); } printf("%16.16lx\n", current); return 0; }